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It’s been nine years since I wrote the first Nameless Dwarf story, a short story called The Ant-Man of Malfen. Ant-Man was accepted for publication in volume five of Pulp Empire, and from then on in I began to receive emails asking for more. The first five Nameless Dwarf novellas I subsequently wrote were published…

From 1-5 August many of the 300 books entered into the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off 2018 will be available for only $0.99 The idea is to get as many readers’ eyes on the blog-off entries as possible and raise visibility for all the entrants. This year i have two entries, both of which will be $0.99…

First up, Sorcerers’ Isle will be released in early 2018. Still waiting to hear who the narrator for the audiobook will be, but once that’s finalized the ebook will be put up for pre-order. The plan is to coordinate the release of all three formats: audio, ebook, and print. Sorcerers’ Isle was sold to Audible…

Over 70,000 words of Immortal have now been written. Still some way to go, but here’s a sneak preview of the map designed by Greg Shipp. Immortal is the tale of the aged Brigantir hero, Tul Turic, who must come out of retirement to face one last threat: a civil war between the people he…

When I left England in 2012 I spent thirteen days at sea (literally), and all of them writing. I was finishing off Bane of the Lich Lord, the fifth Nameless Dwarf novella, which went to make up The Complete Chronicles (my first bestseller). When I arrived I never stopped. Throughout 2015 it only got worse…

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I don’t read enough fantasy. Actually, I avoid it like ebola. The problem is, I write fantasy, and I also edit it. A lot of it. As with Sherlock Holmes, my mind is a cardboard box filled with whatever I happen to be working on, and there is simply no room for anything else. But…